It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy.… — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“I was not at ease that night. I was a prey to an immense distress. I sat as if I had fallen… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
No matter our distress, no matter our sorrow, no matter our mistakes, our infinitely compassionate Heavenly Father desires that we draw near… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Give a child the habit of sacredly regarding the truth - of carefully respecting the property of others - of scrupulously abstaining… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and… — Irwin Stone Copy Share Image
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“To see a Woman you love in Distress; to be unable to relieve her, and at the same Time to reflect that… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Ordinary human concern for human distress does not manifest itself ordinarily in the form of a gun aimed at the wallets and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own.… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected… — Samuel D. Warren Copy Share Image
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire;… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
“Wanting too much sex and being obsessed with it is usually a sign of distress (or immaturity), not necessarily of passion. Passion… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
“No one understands another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the U.S.A. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will… — Fred Phelps Copy Share Image
We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
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